Jan 6, 2021
Thanks, Georgia
Terry Schwadron
Jan. 6, 2020
Hey Georgia, thank you for that sudden blast of hope.
After an expensive and ugly build-up, what a welcome and dramatic move, presuming the final numbers hold up, at once to elect a caring Black minister and a Jewish social crusader as senators, to send Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to the showers and to poke Donald Trump in the eye anew.
It was instructive to Donald Trump’s continuing obsessiveness about the election to see how the election dance unfolded — just in the same county-centric way as in November, underlining local complexities over perceived “fraud.” The Rev. Raphael Warnock won solidly and Jon Ossoff was leading with all signs of winning because the outstanding votes were in favorable areas.
Apart from all else, it was delicious to think that Trump’s foot-stamping actually depressed his own voters and helped Democrats.
It was curious that voters across counties consistently favored Warnock over Ossoff, even though they were running as a pair against incumbents also running with a singular message. Results suggested that 30,000 times or so, they consistently voted for a first Black Democratic senator but not a first Jewish Democratic senator from that state. We’ll probably never know why.
Adding to the absurdity in Washington, loser Kelly Loeffler plans today to challenge voting by the very people who just cast these ballots. And loser David Perdue already was talking about Trump-like challenges to assure only “legal” votes be counted.
Overall, the election gives momentum to the start of a Joe Biden presidency, and importantly should assure that appointments and legislation at least reach the floor. At best, it secures Georgia as a distinctly purple state and reminds all that we ought to be caring about issues other than Trump’s electoral complaints.
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